-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -- Gadi Evron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, Fergie wrote: > >> >> Via TVNZ.co.nz. >> >> [snip] >> >> An overseas computer hacker has managed to wipe out nearly 100 New >> Zealand websites. > >What of the hundreds of others "wiping out" thousands every day? What of >the others yet used for something less destructive such as spam, or more >stealthy such as spying? > >http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/815 > I agree. Completely. In fact, the zone-h defacement archives are busy daily documenting website defacements, so much so that it has almost become commonplace. A more insidious threat, as you well know, is not defacement, but rather the compromise of websites and placement of malicious code which further compromises hundreds of thousands of unsuspecting users via "drive-by's". - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.5.3 (Build 5003) wj8DBQFF070Nq1pz9mNUZTMRAlYCAJ9yMu1gXdqGdOpAifHMasmrTSrcwgCeJoTE UgWiLwyv8QW/2QIXoZvwqsI= =KU7Y -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
